by
Corson, Juliet.
Call Number
641.5
Publication Date
2013
Summary
Published in New York in 1877, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was written by one of the "great ladies" of American cooking who founded the first cooking school in New York to help unemployed working-class women find work as domestics. This cooking manual is based on the school's teachings, with heavy emphasis on preparing nutritious meals inexpensively. This exceptional book by a remarkable woman in American culinary history was aimed at answering the question Corson posed in her manual, "How well can we live, if we are moderately poor?" She dedicated her life and her career to providing the answer in this book and others, to suggest recipes for "the most wholesome and palatable dishes at the least possible cost." Her basic concept involved the principles of using everything available and wasting nothing; avoiding expensive cuts of heavy meat and substituting several dishes such as soup, vegetables, fish, and bread; using lentils, peas, and macaroni as nutritious alternatives to meat; exploring gardens and fields for new delicious greens, such as dandelions, sorrel, chicory, and others to liven up meals; adding herbs and spices to make dishes more palatable. Corson's recipes also explore the cuisines of many countries to find dishes with inexpensive but tasty ingredients, and her chapters on cheap dishes with and without meat are a model of culinary creativity. This important book in the American culinary canon expanded the cooking philosophies of many lower- and middle-class women of the day. This edition of The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, a Revolutionary War patriot and successful printer and publisher, the society is a research library documenting the lives of Americans from the colonial era through 1876. The society collects, preserves, and makes available as complete a record as possible of the printed materials from the early American experience. The cookbook collection comprises approximately 1,100 volumes.
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Lileks, James.
Call Number
ARC 641.5973 LIL
Publication Date
2007
Summary
Presents photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from the 1950s and 1960s with commentary on an array of the "best of the worst" dishes from the period.
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Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008295062-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008295062-d.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2008295062-d.html
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Boston, Michael B.
Call Number
370.92
Publication Date
2010
Summary
Michael Boston offers a radical departure from other interpretations of Booker T. Washington by focusing on the latter's business ideas and practices. More specifically, Boston examines Washington as an entrepreneur, spelling out his business philosophy at great length and discussing the influence it had on black America. He analyzes the national and regional economies in which Washington worked and focuses on his advocacy of black business development as the key to economic uplift for African Americans. The result is a revisionist book that responds to the skewed literature on Washington e.
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by
Richardson, Adrian.
Call Number
641.36 RIC
Publication Date
2008
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by
Leslie, Eliza.
Call Number
641.5
Publication Date
2013
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by
Ostmann, Barbara Gibbs.
Call Number
808.066641 OST
Publication Date
2001
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Books
Table of Contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix07/2001026008.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley036/2001026008.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley036/2001026008.html
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Osseo-Asare, Fran.
Call Number
394.120967 OSS
Publication Date
2005
Summary
"East African, notably, Ethiopian, cuisine is perhaps the most well known African cuisine in the United States. This volume illuminates West, southern, and Central African cuisine as well to give students and other readers a solid understanding of how the diverse African peoples grow, cook, and eat food and how they celebrate special occasions and ceremonies with special foods. Readers will also learn about African history, religions, and ways of life plus how African and American foodways are related. For example, cooking techniques such as deep frying and ingredients such as peanuts, chili peppers, okra, watermelon, and even cola were introduced to the United States by sub-Sahara Africans who were brought as slaves."--BOOK JACKET.
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Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005005498.html
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by
Nenes, Michael F.
Call Number
641.5973 NEN
Publication Date
2007
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Books
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005019107.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005019107-d.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005019107-d.html
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by
O'Neill, Molly.
Call Number
808.066641 AME
Publication Date
2007
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by
Biró, Marcel.
Call Number
641.594 BIR
Publication Date
2005
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Books
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004023353.html
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by
Pierce, Charles
Call Number
ARC 641.5973 COL
Publication Date
2001
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by
Hales, Douglas, 1951-
Call Number
976.40049607300922
Publication Date
2003
Summary
The complex issues of race and politics in nineteenth-century Texas may be nowhere more dramatically embodied than in three generations of the family of Norris Wright Cuney, mulatto labor and political leader. Douglas Hales explores the birthright Cuney received from his white plantation-owner father, Philip Cuney, and the way his heritage played out in the life of his daughter, Maud Cuney-Hare.
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